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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Guyana and West Indies cricketer accused of rape

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Sport Desk
21 days ago
20250629
Cricket

Cricket

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – A Guyanese and West In­dies crick­eter has al­leged­ly been ac­cused of rap­ing a young woman two years ago,

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports in Guyana’s Kai­eteur News, the al­leged in­ci­dent took place on March 3, 2023, at a res­i­dence in New Am­s­ter­dam, Berbice.

The woman, who was 18 years old at the time of the in­ci­dent, is said to have re­tained the ser­vices of law firm Hugh­es, Fields and Sto­by to rep­re­sent her in the mat­ter.

Ac­cord­ing to the vic­tim’s moth­er, they have re­fused at­tempts by the crick­eter’s fam­i­ly to set­tle the mat­ter pri­vate­ly.

She said since the in­ci­dent her daugh­ter was suf­fer­ing from de­pres­sion and sui­ci­dal thoughts.

Fur­ther­more, the vic­tim’s moth­er has ac­cused law en­force­ment of try­ing to cov­er up the in­ci­dent, while in­sist­ing that there was sub­stan­tial ev­i­dence in­clud­ing phone records of calls made by the ac­cused to the vic­tim and eye­wit­ness­es who re­port­ed­ly saw them to­geth­er on the day of the in­ci­dent.

They claimed that the case file was re­port­ed­ly sub­mit­ted to the DPP in May 2023, but it wasn’t un­til Oc­to­ber 3, 2023, that the fam­i­ly learned it had been re­turned with no charges rec­om­mend­ed, and with­out any for­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tion to the com­plainant or her fam­i­ly.

How­ev­er, in De­cem­ber 2023, fol­low­ing a re­view by a new in­ves­ti­ga­tor, the fam­i­ly was in­formed that charges had fi­nal­ly been rec­om­mend­ed.

At this time, though, the ac­cused was al­leged­ly out of the ju­ris­dic­tion and de­spite as­sur­ances that he would be ar­rest­ed up­on his re­turn, no such ac­tion was tak­en.

By Feb­ru­ary 2024, the fam­i­ly was in­formed that the case file had been re­called by the DPP.

The fam­i­ly al­leges that no clear ex­pla­na­tion was giv­en, and the cur­rent lo­ca­tion of the file re­mains un­known, fur­ther fu­el­ing fears that the case may nev­er see a court­room.

The vic­tim’s fam­i­ly al­so con­tends this is not the first time the ac­cused has been im­pli­cat­ed in a sex­u­al as­sault al­le­ga­tion.

CMC


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